Be a Children’s Champion and Raise Money for Charity
However you’re doing it, wherever you’re doing it and whatever amount you’re aiming to raise, we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who takes part in charity fundraising for NYAS. As part of our inspirational team of charity fundraisers, you can help us to make a difference to the lives of care-experienced children and young people across England and Wales.
Our fundraising team is here to support you as you raise money for our charity. We want to ensure that your fundraising experience is enjoyable and rewarding for you. There are so many ways you can support our work, and we’ve outlined all of your charity fundraising options below. If you have any queries about fundraising with NYAS, get in touch with our friendly team.
Take Action, Become a NYAS Fundraiser and Change a Life!
As part of our inspirational team of fundraisers, you can help us to make a difference to the lives of care-experienced children and young people and vulnerable adults across England and Wales.
There are so many ways you can fundraise for NYAS. The first step and key to successful fundraising is choosing the right activity for you. This can be something that fits with your everyday life, or a challenge that inspires you. To help you get started, we have created a list of ways you can get involved and start your fundraising journey today.
Together with your support, we can continue growing our projects and initiatives for care-experienced young people. Changing their lives one voice at a time.
"Every penny raised will go towards funding meaningful activities for young people in care".
Simon*, Fundraiser
Create Your Own Fundraiser:
Feel like your inner event planner is bursting at the seams, or have a challenge you're desperate to take on? Get creative and create your very own fundraiser. This is a great way to get friends and family involved, raising both money and awareness.The best fundraising events are always the ones where people are having fun. How about planning:
- A craft afternoon – e.g, painting candles or pottery
- A bingo night
- A barn dance
- A quiz
- A Karaoke night
- A talent competition
- A Silent Auction
- A Games night
- A Badminton competition
Some ideas to get you started:
- Take on a personal challenge - Create your very own sponsored challenge. This could be a one-off activity, like shaving your head, or a month-long challenge, like no chocolate for a month.
- A sponsored sporting challenge such as a long bike ride, run or swim
- A sponsored team challenge. Take on a 24-hour danceathon, singathon or sports challenge, with one or more person completing the activity at any one time across 24 hours.
- An individual 24-hour challenge such as a sponsored silence, knitathon, gameathon, or wearing fancy dress for 24 hours straight
- Face a fear - Are you scared of spiders, or heights or something else? Collect sponsorship to face your fear, e.g. arrange to hold a tarantula for 30 seconds, or take on a Zipline!
- Take on a one-month challenge. This could be anything from giving up something you love such as chocolate, wearing a funky facial hair look, or a walking five miles every day for a month.
- A one-off challenge – Brave the shave and cut off your hair or take on an adrenaline fuelled fun activity such as cold plunge or do a skydive!
Whatever you choose to do, our fundraising team are on hand to help! Contact us at fundraising@nyas.net to tell us about your fundraiser. We can help you set up your very own JustGiving Campaign page, answer any questions, and offer fundraising tips.
Give Like It’s Your Birthday Every Day!
Do you have a birthday coming up, or are celebrating a landmark event such as an anniversary, or wedding? You can make your celebration even more special by asking family and friends for donations to NYAS instead of gifts.
You can set up an online fundraising page with JustGiving- this is free to do. Simply visit JustGiving to get started. Use our JustGiving Top Tips to help you create the best page possible.
Or you can set up a celebration fundraiser via Facebook. Open your Facebook profile, click to create a post, choose ‘Raise Money’, and search The National Youth Advocacy Service. Choose to fundraise for NYAS and set up your own fundraiser. Don't forget to explain why you have chosen to fundraise for NYAS, and what the celebration is.
If you need support with setting up a fundraiser or wording, contact our fundraising team at fundraising@nyas.net.
Everyday Living, Everyday Giving: Give Back As You Shop
You can raise funds to support the work of NYAS by doing something you do every week, shopping! Whether it is little treat for yourself, or a necessary buy, give back as you shop. We offer two central platforms where you can give back while you shop:
- Give As You Live – Give as you Live is a free and easy way to raise money when you shop online with 6,000+ stores. Sign up to create an account, add their donation reminder browser extension and start shopping.
- Easy Fundraising –Set up an easyfundraising profile and raise money for NYAS when you shop with over 7,500 brands. Add the donation reminder browser extension and receive automatic pop ups letting you know you when a donation is available.